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Camellia :: Camellia (n.) An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves and showy flowers. Camellia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea..

Submarshal :: Submarine (n.) A submarine plant or animal.

Gynandria :: Gynandria (n. pl.) A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil..

Plumbagin :: Plumbagin (n.) A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.

Dibble :: Dibble (v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.

Aphidophagous :: Aphidophagous (a.) Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae..

Soil :: Soil (n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them..

Ipecacuanha :: Ipecacuanha (n.) The root of a Brazilian rubiaceous herb (Cephaelis Ipecacuanha), largely employed as an emetic; also, the plant itself; also, a medicinal extract of the root. Many other plants are used as a substitutes; among them are the black or Peruvian ipecac (Psychotria emetica), the white ipecac (Ionidium Ipecacuanha), the bastard or wild ipecac (Asclepias Curassavica), and the undulated ipecac (Richardsonia scabra)..

Argus :: Argus (n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail..

Entheic :: Entheic (a.) Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis..

Specific :: Specific (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice..

Umbellifer :: Umbellifer (n.) A plant producing an umbel or umbels.

Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla..

Plant :: Plant (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

Hydrophyte :: Hydrophyte (n.) An aquatic plant; an alga.

Biforine :: Biforine (n.) An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceae. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged..

Embryo :: Embryo (n.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant.

Hybrid :: Hybrid (a.) Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature..

Apheliotropism :: Apheliotropism (n.) The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

Malvaceous :: Malvaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it..

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